Author : David Lavender
Publisher :
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 18,51 MB
Release : 1966
Category : Buena Vista, Battle of, 1847
ISBN :
Descriptive account of the decisive battle of the Mexican War - from which General Zachary Taylor emerged with the Presidency in hand.
Author : Amy S. Greenberg
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 40,7 MB
Release : 2013-08-13
Category : History
ISBN : 0307475999
The definitive history of the often forgotten U.S.-Mexican War paints an intimate portrait of the major players and their world—from Indian fights and Manifest Destiny, to secret military maneuvers, gunshot wounds, and political spin. “If one can read only a single book about the Mexican-American War, this is the one to read.” —The New York Review of Books Often overlooked, the U.S.-Mexican War featured false starts, atrocities, and daring back-channel negotiations as it divided the nation, paved the way for the Civil War a generation later, and launched the career of Abraham Lincoln. Amy S. Greenberg’s skilled storytelling and rigorous scholarship bring this American war for empire to life with memorable characters, plotlines, and legacies. Along the way it captures a young Lincoln mismatching his clothes, the lasting influence of the Founding Fathers, the birth of the Daughters of the American Revolution, and America’s first national antiwar movement. A key chapter in the creation of the United States, it is the story of a burgeoning nation and an unforgettable conflict that has shaped American history.
Author : Samuel McNeil
Publisher :
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 16,2 MB
Release : 1850
Category : California
ISBN :
Author : George Wilkins Kendall
Publisher :
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 37,32 MB
Release : 1851
Category : Mexican War, 1846-1848
ISBN :
Author : Robert W. Johannsen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 43,87 MB
Release : 1988-01-21
Category : History
ISBN : 019536418X
For mid-19th-century Americans, the Mexican War was not only a grand exercise in self-identity, legitimizing the young republic's convictions of mission and destiny to a doubting world; it was also the first American conflict to be widely reported in the press and to be waged against an alien foe in a distant and exotic land. It provided a window onto the outside world and promoted an awareness of a people and a land unlike any Americans had known before. This rich cultural history examines the place of the Mexican War in the popular imagination of the era. Drawing on military and travel accounts, newspaper dispatches, and a host of other sources, Johannsen vividly recreates the mood and feeling of the period--its unbounded optimism and patriotic pride--and adds a new dimension to our understanding of both the Mexican War and America itself.
Author : Karl Jack Bauer
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 38,70 MB
Release : 1992-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780803261075
"Much has been written about the Mexican war, but this . . . is the best military history of that conflict. . . . Leading personalities, civilian and military, Mexican and American, are given incisive and fair evaluations. The coming of war is seen as unavoidable, given American expansion and Mexican resistance to loss of territory, compounded by the fact that neither side understood the other. The events that led to war are described with reference to military strengths and weaknesses, and every military campaign and engagement is explained in clear detail and illustrated with good maps. . . . Problems of large numbers of untrained volunteers, discipline and desertion, logistics, diseases and sanitation, relations with Mexican civilians in occupied territory, and Mexican guerrilla operations are all explained, as are the negotiations which led to war's end and the Mexican cession. . . . This is an outstanding contribution to military history and a model of writing which will be admired and emulated."-Journal of American History. K. Jack Bauer was also the author of Zachary Taylor: Soldier, Planter, Statesman of the Old Southwest (1985) and Other Works. Robert W. Johannsen, who introduces this Bison Books edition of The Mexican War, is a professor of history at the University of Illinois, Urbana, and the author of To the Halls of Montezumas: The Mexican War in the American Imagination (1985).
Author : Felice Flanery Lewis
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 46,10 MB
Release : 2010-03-16
Category : History
ISBN : 0817316787
This work is a narrative of Zachary Taylor’s Mexican War campaign, from the formation of his army in 1844 to his last battle at Buena Vista in 1847, with emphasis on the 163 men in his “Army of Occupation” who became Confederate or Union generals in the Civil War. It clarifies what being a Mexican War veteran meant in their cases, how they interacted with one another, how they performed their various duties, and how they reacted under fire. Referring to developments in Washington, D.C., and other theaters of the war, this book provides a comprehensive picture of the early years of the conflict based on army records and the letters and diaries of the participants. Trailing Clouds of Glory is the first examination of the roles played in the Mexican War by the large number of men who served with Taylor and who would be prominent in the next war, both as volunteer and regular army officers, and it provides fresh information, even on such subjects as Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant. Particularly interesting for the student of the Civil War are largely unknown aspects of the Mexican War service of Daniel Harvey Hill, Braxton Bragg, and Thomas W. Sherman.
Author : Emma Willard
Publisher :
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 10,26 MB
Release : 1850
Category : United States
ISBN :
Author : Wim Coleman
Publisher : History Compass
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 18,30 MB
Release : 1998-08
Category : Mexican War, 1846-1848
ISBN : 9781579600440
In 1846, two American nations went to war, precipitated by the U.S. annexation of Texas. This volume presents excerpts from the memoirs, letters, poetry, and journals of the men involved in, and protestors of, "Mr. Polk's War" including Zachary Taylor, Ulysses S. Grant, Jefferson Davis, General Stephen Watts Kearny, Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, Kit Carson, John Greenleaf Whittier, and Henry David Thoreau.
Author : Henry Montgomery
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 49,96 MB
Release : 1847
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
The Life of Major General Zachary Taylor is a great biography of America's 12th president. Montgomery's biography includes a short history of the Taylor family, and focuses on his military career rather than time as president. A table of contents is included.
